Claude Debussy’s stunning “Trio for Flute, Viola, & Harp” has captured the imaginations of audiences and composers alike since its creation in 1916. Join us as we enjoy this work and hear some of the works inspired by it — imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!

2017 marks the 500th anniversary of the Lutheran Reformation, and the 100th anniversary of Finnish independence. Both occasions created new aesthetics and traditions in music. Join us as we explore this rich heritage!

The Young Chamber Players is turning fifteen years old! That calls for a party—and a fundraiser! Join us as current and past Young Chamber Players perform and tell us about what the program has meant to them.

The human voice provided the ultimate vehicle in expressing the despairing longings and the ecstatic fulfillments omnipresent in Romantic literature and verse. Baritone Ryan Bede brings us the poetry of this time, from composers of the past and present.

This program, performed by Texas’ “Harrington String Quartet” explores connections between the masterworks of the past and the work of Samuel Jones, Tacoma resident and former Composer-in-Residence of the Seattle Symphony.

SCCS’s Young Chamber Players has already generated a generation of new and exciting young music professionals and chamber music lovers! Come hear the “post-millennial” generation of chamber musicians at this exciting event.

The invention of the piano and the clarinet in the late eighteenth century brought about new possibilities of sonority in the world of chamber music. However, it was not until the twentieth century that composers chose to combine the sonority of the clarinet, violin, and piano into a unique mélange of sound. Join us as we explore these instruments separately and as we explore the past and future of this unique sonority.